Design of a Lexical Semantics Ontology in the MultiGenera and MultiComb Projects
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https://doi.org/10.17561/rilex.6.3.8083Keywords:
Lexicography, Ontologies, Semantic Categories, Noun PhraseAbstract
The aim of this paper is to present the design, development, and functionality of the ontology in the MultiGenera and MultiComb multilingual projects, (Spanish, German, and French) for the automatically generation of the noun phrases (FN) and its sentence contexts. It is important to highlight the primordial role of this ontology for the development of these, as it involved a formalisation of the fundamental properties of lexical items in accordance with valential grammar and lexicography. The ontology provides semantic tagging labels for the semantic classes that make up the syntagmatic environment of the twenty nouns, belonging to different areas of knowledge. Its purpose is to organise the lexical data for storage in the database and subsequent retrieval through the prototype applications Xera and Combinatoria, which automatically generate the nominal structures of the nouns and their combination in sentence contexts.
The ontology development process is divided into two phases: in the first phase, the same semantic classes as in Portlex to classify the actants of each noun used for the automatic generation of FN in the Xera 1. 0. in the three languages. In the second phase, the ontology is reconfigured by automatically connecting to the WordNet database synsets and other related ontologies to increase the lexical database of the projects. The latter ontology presents greater granularity, which favours programming for the generation of name environments and their sentence combination. The application of the ontology in language learning is shown by the user-friendly interface in various applications to select the possible lexical items combinations in FN. It should be noted that the ontology is still under development and is available online.
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